Chapter 24 - 22 : Impact of Broadcast
Since the U.S. government has currently cut off all civilian Internet access, television and radio have become the only ways for all U.S. citizens to obtain external information. The female host on TV is broadcasting the major news of the past few days with a solemn face:
"According to the latest news obtained by our internal staff from the World Health Organization, the latest vaccine has been confirmed to have failed in the vaccination test!"
"The bureaucratic government has been unable to control the epidemic in the infected areas. They have dug large areas of "mass graves" outside major cities and even inhumanely removed those who were still infected and those who had died."
"..."
After talking about some important news, the female host on TV held several manuscripts in her hands. Suddenly her face changed, and she said to the camera with a face filled with grief and resentment:
"American citizens in front of the TV—what you see next are the images captured by our reporters who risked their lives. All of them are real events that took place in the infected area."
Then the camera turned, and a not particularly clear video was played on the TV. Several soldiers held assault rifles and violently shot at the infected people who rushed towards them. After solving these infected people, more than a dozen survivors ran out of the building next to them. Although the camera was blurry, it could be seen from their body movements that these people were very excited.
A soldier came to these survivors and confiscated all their weapons. Just when everyone thought that these survivors would be escorted to safety, what happened next shocked everyone in front of the TV. They were all dumbfounded.
After the soldier left, the remaining soldiers raised their rifles without hesitation and fired at the dozen survivors in front of them. In just a few seconds, they were all killed. They shot and killed them without caring that they were old people and children.
Later, the TV played videos of soldiers from other places shooting and killing survivors in infected areas, and when reporters interviewed survivors who had escaped from various infected areas, these people condemned and angrily denounced the government's brutal actions!
Brian even saw in these videos the lakeside cabin where they once stayed, as well as Angela and Barton's corpses on the ground.